Conference Schedule:
2 January 2007
09:00- Greetings
09:30-12:30 Phenomenology and Philosophy Today
Dan Zahavi- Philosophy and Naturalism: The Challenge to Phenomenology
Gabriel Motzkin- Phenomenology and the End of Philosophy in the 21st Century
Claude Imbert- Phenomenology and its Prédicaments: Facing a Second Modernism
12:30-14:00- Lunch
14:00-16:00- Phenomenology and Epistemology
Dagfinn Føllesdal- Husserl's View on Ultimate Justification
Natalie Depraz- Indexicality and Intuitive Evidence: a Pragmatics of Phenomenology (from Peirce to Husserl and from Husserl to Wittgenstein)
16:00-16:30- Coffee break
16:30-18:30- Phenomenology and Consciousness
Benny Shanon- New Paradigms for the Psychological Study of the Phenomenology of Human Consciousness
Yaron Senderowicz-The First Person Perspective and the Concept of a Self
3 January 2007
9:00-12:00 Logic and Formal Ontology
Kevin Mulligan- Formal Concepts, Properties and Relations. An Evaluation of Husserl's Theory
Olav K. Wiegand- Formal Mereological Semantics – A Fresh Approach to Semantics based on Mereology
Michael Roubach- Phenomenology, Necessity, and the A priori
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30- 15:30 Phenomenology and Mathematics
Mark van Atten- Phenomenology and Transcendental Argument in mathematics: the Case of Brouwer's `Bar Theorem'
Carl Posy- And Language Lags Behind: Mathematics and the Ready-to-Hand
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00- 18:00 Later Phenomenology and the Sciences
Elhanan Yakira- Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida on the Origin of Geometry
Miguel de Beistegui- Science and Ontology in Merleau-Ponty
4 January 2007
9:00-11:00 Phenomenology and Nature
Pierre Kerszberg- Phenomenological Investigations of Natural Science
Ashraf Noor- "Natur und Geist": Husserl's Early Theory of the Life-World